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March 30, 2020 8:10 am
Yes, especially in this time of the coronavirus God has an encouraging word for you and me today from the Bible itself. This is The Encouraging Word featuring the Bible-based printing of Dr. Don Wilton well-known author evangelist and pastoring today as he takes us to the message the exalted Christ we going to the book of Philippians Philippians chapter 2 in a minute want you to know that we're here for you now more than ever we are leaving in the power of prayer to bring us together and using technology like streaming online radio broadcasts that are helping us as the body of Christ, pray for one another and pray each other through our phone number is 8668 jotted down stored in your cell 866-899-9673 or online@ewonline.org. We would love to encourage you and now Dr. Don Wilton now your heart is just so fragile for someone right now that God might be putting in my heart that you just wondering whether it's even worse, living listen to what God sees. He loves you and he spirit speak to you not been read to you a few verses in Philippians chapter 2 and this is so important to us today. You know that wonderful verse that we quote all the time that just comes to mind. God will never leave you nor forsake or not. If you could, God will never leave you. I'm going to show you why that's not even the subject that I'm speaking on the day but that verse keeps coming to me. I want to speak to you today on the subject of the exalted Christ.
Now that word exalted is a very important word means prestigious illustrious lifted up to the highest level. My favorite word to explain the word exalted is distinguished in the Bible tells us something about the Lord Jesus. The Bible tells us that often the Lord Jesus had come to the service and had taken on himself.
Your sin and mine.
Yet he himself without sin. Often he identified with us. He went to the cross, taking upon himself the sin of the world. He was buried, and on the third day God raised him up.
He didn't come back to life with Allison in him, sin was once and for all.
It was dated.
That's why watch this when you give your heart to Jesus you are taking hold of what the Lord Jesus has already done for you even though you are being set free of your son now you are being set free of your sin because of what Jesus has already done for you. When he went to the cross, taking your sin was buried in the grave, God raised him up boarding back to life and then off to having appeared to over 500 people DSC unity when back up into heaven, and that's when the Bible says God exalted him. Does that mean that Jesus somehow changed, though he didn't change, but the Bible is going to show us that he exalted him and gave him a name which is what this Bob every night you get back the most prestigious because it's at night. The name of Jesus, that every knee will bow and every tongue on what happened when God exalted him. He received a new name Lord that speaks to you somebody he received new worship when he was on this earth. Only those who believed in him would bother to go and worshiping my morning was born was just Shepard's wise man and there a lot of people right throughout his life. He said no way the Bible say is through the exaltation of Jesus having paid the price that he received the new worship because everyone where the everyone wants to or not all people will worship. He received new rulership when he came to this earth. Some people thought he was just coming to deliver them from Roman oppression.
God tells us that when Jesus was exalted made distinguished above all others. He was given a new rulership he received the right to rule and have sovereign RT everyone and everything. He also received the new allegiance. Allegiance is very important, but only those who wanted to agreed to do this, Jesus allegiance, but the Bible tells us with these is all taken all people will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, whether they want to or not, but for some people it's going to be too late. That's why I want to invite you today to give your life to Christ and something very interesting happens and if you look with me at chapter 2 and all away down in verse 12.
The Bible says is right there that we ought to work out our salvation with fear and trembling fear and trembling is the key with which believers puts you there sanctification. In other words, it involves not only a healthy fear of the framing this holy and righteous God, but it also incorporates a righteous worship and seems subservience people and a righteous God.
He said you and I need to come to grips, we need to work this out friends. I'm calling us today. If you know this, Jesus is not good enough for you and I just to sit inside up. Yes, I'm a believer I'm forgiven, I'm going to heaven. The Bible says we need to be engaged in the very action and at the of not only being all that God stands for, but worshiping him out of a deep and abiding spiritual sense of all respect for all God is because he's the exalted one. Let me read this to verse nine of Philippians chapter 2 therefore I can't even get parts that would therefore evidently there's going to be a reason. Some things just happened.
What just happened. Paul looked at believers like you and me and says this needs to be your attitude. This needs to be the way you conduct yourself.
This needs to be how you approach your life in Christ. Let this mind be in you, and the first thing he does is he sees you got to be an empty disciple.
We talked about that last week didn't wait because the first thing that Jesus did was that he emptied himself, and we discovered last week that he emptied himself, he made himself nothing, he set aside his privileges, he gave up his heavenly glory.
Go he's eternal riches. He forfeited his father's favor. He sacrificed his own will. That's what Jesus did and God is telling me to do something that I can't do because I have to let the mind of Christ, which was also in Christ, but has been given to me by his spirit.
In other words God as he says in the very last part of verse 13.
It is God who is at work in you both to will and to work God's good pleasure.
You can do this you can empty yourself, you can't do it, but God can. Because God is at work in you, that a disciple I disciple or someone who has completely back and said, Lord, I cannot, but you can.
That's what a disciple is an empty disciple is nothing them empty disciple has no privileges and empty disciple displays no glory and empty disciple owns the riches that was a hard one for some of us NEG disciple desires no favor and empty disciple pushes no agenda. In other words, put it like this. He said I am nothing accepting that Christ is in me, I'm somebody, not because of me, but because of the exalted one. Therefore, therefore, verse nine. God has highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth why the three dynamics.
Why does he say in heaven on earth and under the earth because they're all three domains of God's sovereign reach heaven. That is where God's seat. There are three heaven God's seat occupies the third heaven, the seat of his authority. No man can get earth God created the heavens and singular the earth what's under the earth, what you suppose is under the why did Jesus say that this man in Luke 16, who died without knowing him was buried under the earth. Why did he say of Lazarus who knew him had a relationship with him was not very under the earth. He was carried up by the angels into heaven you ever wondered why volcanoes spewing lava and fire yet wondered what is down there. Ever wondered why in Revelation chapter 21 the new heaven and the new earth that God comes down out of heaven, the new Jerusalem says from now on, I'm making my dwelling place in the Galactic sphere of my sovereign grace with no separation is not going to be anymore gravity no see no separation was again a Mikey's headquarters in the new Jerusalem exactly where Jerusalem is not what the new Jerusalem. What role does this play and what you suppose is unwrapped. Why does God not refer to under the earth when he creates the new heaven and earth. Why does he demarcate heaven and earth and under the earth when he talks about worship bringing heaven together in the new Jerusalem buddy never eliminates under the new know this that Revelation chapter 20 in verse 15 says if anyone's name was not found written in the Lamb's book of life that will be cost into the lake of fire. That's intense. It's intense but it's true because it comes from God's word. I pray that you and I would take these warnings to heart and know that if it were not ready to change that just by our decision to say yes to Jesus like to speak with someone were rated talk with you privately. Right now at 86688668999673 into two more comfortable online email us at online@tewonline.org that's T EW online.org not only find folks to pray with you and connect with great resources perhaps will begin some new disciplines sometimes in this time of isolation.
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They make great pictures.
No man has ever been able to pour enough liquid down the mouth of a volcano to chrome whatever it is that creates that fury under the therefore God has highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name Jesus every knee shall bow, in heaven and on earth and under the your and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father. Therefore, brothers and sisters in Christ.
As you have always obeyed is the mark of Christian discipleship.
So now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence.
You need to be about the business of working out your salvation, both making certain you do not have training the holy and righteous God, and yet in an attitude of all respect because God is, for it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. This is an amazing passage. It's amazing because the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ means that we have a wonderful life to live.
It means that we have a wonderful hello to long for it means that we have an incredible team to follow and it means that we have a perpetual permanent advocate to thank.
Let me explain it to you. You see, my friends, the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ to the empty disciple concerned Jesus identity as man. In other words, in addition to receiving back his glory. God gave to Jesus the Christ the son of the living God found privileges because he not maybe he could not have identified with them the interceding crease the one range making intercession for you and for me take all of it. That's what Paul is saying when he said let this mind be in you. This gives no frivolity. This is not bubbling frost. These are the magnificent truth of who God is. This is what the world is waiting to hear. This is what we all know there are people all across America today who are crying out for someone for something that means that whatever it is we have everything we got it all, but evidently judging by the condition in which we find ourselves. We have nothing what happened when Christ was exalted. Just listen to this. Metatron simplified it when Christ was exalted. Number one God raised him. That was the first act in the path way to the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you will remember that in John chapter 17 which is a magnificent prayer of our Savior, who fell on east face in the garden of these betrayal cried out to the father which is in heaven and see and restore unto me all that I laid aside in order to fulfill the will of my father which is in heaven. Therefore God exalted him, he raised him and in so doing, he conquered my days, he conquered my bid. He remove the fear he told me I have no longer anything to be concerned about about what happens to me and where I go this blackhole that we look at this thing that we deal with every single day of our lives, what hope would we have anyone have a suggestion. What would we say we would join the rest of the hopeless world that looks out and says well, at least God probably needs a trumpet player up there all we will join the rambling ramblings of Hollywood talking about the big man upstairs and one day we might find out and only hope. Maybe we'll enjoy the ranks of the terrorists who believe that by murdering and maiming and blowing up in the name of religion that somehow this is untouchable and unreachable. Give them something that they know not by some atrocity in the maybe we should just get on the bandwagon.
No, not I'm not. I God therefore has exalted him, he raised him number two he welcomed him. Just think about that. That's how God exalted Jesus he welcomed him when he welcome him back home done a few travels in my life I unapologetically tell you I enjoyed traveling lobbying to some different places around the world, but let it be said on record is nothing like coming home to mama.
There's nothing like coming home to my doctor. There's nothing like home.
I spent half my waking hours trying to scan live and work out some kind of plan that I can just sit around with her and hold her hand and just listen to her. Nothing like home is you know something my friends there's some things that just carry a lot of value to me. When Jesus was exalted, you know what God did welcomed him home to me tell you something about that home my home to Jesus said I'm going to prepare a place for if I go and prepare a place for you will come again and I will bring you home when God exalted him. He not only raised them and welcomed him but God crowned him the correlation was the hallmark of the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ because it was in the crowning of Jesus that God our heavenly father declared him to be Lord.
That is the highest honor that God could ever bestowed upon any and he gave it only to his own son, Lord, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when God exalted him, he seated him gave him the ultimate position Bible say as he ascended to be seated. Do you know that in heaven there is a throne that you know that you read about it. For example, in Revelation Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Bible is full of. That's the place with the third heaven is that's the ultimate place. That's where God's throne is God's seat.
Can you imagine God exalted the sun. Yeah, he raised him he welcomed him he crowned him and he seated him you know that you don't sit in the presence of Majesty. He is Lord and the Bible gives us this beautiful picture of all of us surrounding his throne worshiping him, he seated at the right hand of the father.
So what does this mean I have to ask the question. You know why, but also the question because pole said let this mind be in you somehow I go to work this out not only in a manner that's not going to offend God but also in an attitude of respect and love for his awesomeness. His greatness for his Majesty top across the question, what is this mean for me. The exaltation of Jesus for things I wanted means that we have life forever. What was the first thing that God did he raise Jesus you know Paul put it like this, he said, as in Adam all die, but in Christ your mind alive.
It is a good life forever for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have ever lasting life. Did you know that you can know that you can know when you repent of your sin and by faith trusting Jesus you going to live forever in him number two means that we have a home forever as God welcomed him home.
Jesus said I'm going up there to get your place ready that way. I am that you will be so what is the exaltation of Christ mean why do I need to make this meeting because in Christ because of his exaltation. I have a home forever, but a means in the third place that we have a kingdom forever. He was crowned. Do you know that we ultimately lead God exalted Jesus crowned him since this is Lord he is Lord. That's why would it take all of this mind needs to be in me because was it is in Christ, and he by his spirit will give that to me will me when I'm emptied of myself. You put himself.
Which means he is both Christ and Lord. It means that I bought a kingdom forever, and one that can be trusted. You know that you can trust God 100% but it also means that I have an advocate for ever because he's become my high priest because he paid the price.
It means I have got God who is both Lord and Christ dictating for me. What's this key is acting unreliable half you know when you go to him and praying you say Lord would would you would you come said.
He said that's why you can come throw their seat. When he was seated that speaks to his position. What is his position. His position God is the mediator between God and man sensor one.
I can come directly to God the father always listens. He always pennies all going to be 100% what is absolutely best for me because it's his decision which means I went I went in life when Indy I pray you understand the joy that winning in Christ you put a great deal.
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